Nov 17

Hi guys, please bring all three reports and two transcripts to class today. Area groups will be presenting, you'll post your final paper topic in your blog, and I will meet those who didn't get to see me last week. In the meantime, produce an outline of your final paper. I would like to review outlines next week in class.
Soon
Roland

H1N1

Hi guys, you should have received the email explaining my absence today. My family doc told me to avoid contact with anyone I like until 24 hours after the fever has gone away. That should be Thursday, I'd presume. All others, by all means, talk to me now. I'm in the Garden house.
I'll open the classroom for you, ahead of the hour. I'll lock the place at 8:30 and you can use the space to finish your area presentations, post you last interviews, etc. call or text my cell if you need answers from me right away. Who's gonna administer the class list? Melanie, Maddy, Mike? Great! Thanks.

Bring the 2nd interview on paper, do send an electronic copy

Meeting time with Roland
Nov 3 --------- Nov 10
Sneah - 17:00 - Diao
Karla - 17:15 - Margaret
Hannah - 17:30 - Galkhuu
Kevin LH - 18:00 - Mohammed
Chris - 18:15 - Ka Ye
Ryan - 18:30 - Melanie
Nick - 18:45 - Brad
Sisay - 19:00 - Mike
Sarah - 19:30 - Wei
Maria - 19:45 - Maddy
Nathan - 20:00 - Vishal
Lu - 20:15

Group work: Introduce the interviewees' countries

All groups meet to discuss a 10-minute presentation due in class in three weeks, Nov 17.
Present the countries and region of your interviewees.
Characterize the cultures, history, and geography. Describe the political system, government, educational system, main industries, and tourism, among others.
Present using a web-based presentation. Each members needs to put the group presentation onto their own blog.

How can you structure a presentation on your region?

1.Explain why members of your group are interested in this region. Include exact reasons, names, interests.
2.Describe the environment on a large-to-small scale: continent, area, country, state, region, city, village (use your interviewees as examples)
3.Describe the history of your country
4.Describe the government, the institutions of governance, schools, health care, and other official institutions
5.What are the schooling options, literacy, communication conditions (radio, internet, cell phone, tv, cable, direct tv, etc.)
6. etc.

Meetings with Roland on Nov 3 and 10

Next week (Nov 3) I will not stay with students in class, but I will schedule 15 minute individual meetings with each student in my office LH 116 while the class works away in the B51 computer lab finishing those interviews.

Two examples for discussion in section 21, originating in section 85.
Student 1
Student 2
For first interviews, these students have been very successful. What could be improved for future interviews, how would you improve the report? How can these good examples inform your own future interview structure and reporting?

When you copy verbatim text from sources, and you do not use "quotes"...

10-20 Country/region report

Look for information on the geography, culture, and other unique aspects of the country or region of your first interviewee. Spend no more than 45 minutes on this task, before comparing notes with your new regional group (as seen in the right margin). Read, compare, and finalize the blog entry. By 8:20, every student will have posted the blog "Preliminary report on _____" on their blog site.
By next week, comment on all your classmates' blogs so that they may receive input on their approach to relate cultural and country information.